New Life Prison Ministries
Charitable organization · London, Ontario · BN 850019415RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($702,548) as filed with the CRA.
New Life Prison Ministries is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $738K in revenue and $703K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 43 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $386K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $450K in 2020 to $738K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Bible study correspondence with offenders & ex-offenders and their families. Help chaplains lead bible studies or chapel services inside correction facilities. Distribution of audio recording devices to offenders in order for them to listen to the bible and bible lessons. We create and print books for distribution to the inmates to help those struggling with addictionss family life their past etc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $738K | $703K | $605K | $35K | — | $927K |
| 2023 | $696K | $587K | $213K | $10K | — | $931K |
| 2022 | $605K | $506K | $489K | $17K | — | $821K |
| 2021 | $634K | $471K | $441K | $11K | — | $723K |
| 2020 | $450K | $391K | $326K | $36K | — | $560K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $386K from 43 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- The Bible League of Canada$60K
- Banman Family Foundation$35K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$21K
- Hopedale Bible Chapel$20K
- D.H. Falle Family Foundation$20K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$13K
- The Linders Foundation$10K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- D.H. Falle Family Foundation$10K
- ST. Mathew's Mar Thoma Church Toronto$8,000
- Southdale Bible Chapel$4,661
- Collective Church$4,200
- Covenant Christian Reformed Church of Barrie$4,081
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,041
- Granton Community Bible Church Inc.$4,000
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Woodstock$3,931
- Calvary Pentecostal Assembly$3,600
- Eagle Street Christian Fellowship$3,600
- Grandview Baptist Church$3,500
- Forest Bible Chapel$3,000
- West Park Baptist Church$2,550
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,200
- Tavistock Bible Chapel$1,850
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$305K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rene' Kooistra (chair); Doug Holt (treasurer); Samuel Sappong (secretary); Tim Riley (trustee); Ruth Hanna (trustee); Delores Mackey (trustee); David Steenburg (trustee); William Wake (vice-chair); Peter Bolt (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Life Prison Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850019415RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.